The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, NATO DIANA, has announced a new cohort of innovative companies will join the Accelerator Programme in January 2025.
DIANA was set-up by NATO in 2023 to tackle societal challenges through disruptive dual-use technologies.
NATO DIANA has identified 5 key streams of actions:
Energy and power
Critical infrastructure and logistics
Data and Information Security
Human health and performance
Sensing and surveillance
The 2025 cohort of 73 start-ups and SME are roughly evenly spread among those streams of actions.
UK DASA, the UK Defence and Security Accelerator, is one of NATO DIANA's test centres, and will welcome 5 of these selected innovative companies, all selected as part of the "Sensing & Surveillance" stream:
AI Verse (France) An artificial intelligence (AI) company addressing the challenges surrounding accessibility, quality, privacy, accuracy, and labelling of images for training computer vision models.
EIFys (Finland) Founded by university researchers, the company aims to commercialise induced junction black silicon photodiodes.
Metahelios (UK) A company building imaging technologies for industries through a nanotechnological approach.
RVmagnetics (Slovakia) A high-technology company in the field of sensors and identification technologies based on microwaves.
Winse Power (Finland) A company developing Optical links, a solution for delivering power and data with light, with applications in the sensing and surveillance fields.
Clock HERE to read UK DASA's statement and information.
As part of the programme, each company will receive €100,000 to continue iterating their technology solution, along with training and insights from experts in technology, commercial development and defence, and opportunities to test their technology in a variety of specialised environments. Companies in the programme are paired with one of DIANA’s network of accelerators for on-the-ground training, development and support.
For more information about NATO DIANA, click HERE.
